Genghis Khan led his army straight to Samarkand, the capital of Khorezm, and chose Koksare, ten miles from the city, as the base camp of the Mongol army. Through field reconnaissance, he found that Samrakan was surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only the west of the city was a plain, so he decided to place the battlefield outside this empty west gate to benefit the Mongol cavalry who were good at field battles.

During the reconnaissance, although he saw the strong walls, deep trenches, and iron gates of Samarkgan, and constantly admired in his heart that the city was indeed strong and worthy of its name, he valued the human factor more.

During the tour, Genghis Khan repeatedly said to his men: "The strength of a city depends only on the bravery of its defenders." ”

In other words, the impregnable fortified city could not be defended in the hands of cowardly soldiers, and was eventually destroyed by the brave and fearless army. In order to confuse the enemy in the city, Genghis Khan cleverly implemented the strategy of borrowing troops from the enemy, making the captives from all over the country dress up in Mongol clothes, forming a team of ten, waving a Mongol banner, ordering them to walk under the city one by one, deliberately demonstrating to the defenders of the city.

The defenders of the city saw the Mongol troops outside the city passing by proudly, and saw that the bright battle flags were overwhelming, and the men and horses were like a tide, and they hurriedly went to report to the guards: "There are so many Mongol soldiers and horses, and their numbers are more than the grains of sand and raindrops, and they surround our Samarkan and are surrounded by water. ”

This strategy of borrowing troops from the enemy really made the defenders scheming, and they believed that the Mongol army was strong and strong, and had already played a preemptive deterrent role before the battle. Although preparations for the siege had been made, Genghis Khan was not in a hurry to give the order to attack the city, and sent two wise and brave generals, Jebe and Subutai, as well as Tokuchaer, and ordered them to lead 10,000 cavalry each to quickly pursue and destroy Mohammad.

In order to prevent Mohammad's eldest son, Zalandin, from bringing troops from the south to aid Samarkand, Genghis Khan sent his generals Getari and Spear Savul to lead 10,000 horses to Tiemen Pass, Sand Guard, and Tarisse to snipe possible reinforcements.

After all preparations were made for the attack on Samarkan, Genghis Khan said to his generals: "You have rested for three full days in Quaksalay, and now the time has come to pay the blood debt to the enemy, who is in the city of Samarkan, let us act at once!"

As soon as Genghis Khan's words were finished, the Mongol army rushed forward with lightning speed, shouting, and surrounded Samargan. At this time, Albarr Khan, the commander of the western gate of the city, despite the dissuasion of the main general Tahai Khan, insisted on leading 10,000 horses out of the city to fight to the death with the Mongols.

The soldiers and horses of both sides formed a formation on the plain outside the west gate, first shooting at each other with bows and arrows, and the arrows rained down on the opposing soldiers, each suffering heavy casualties. The Mongolian Great Khan, who has always been famous for his love and talent in the Mongolian steppe, stood on a high slope and saw the figure of Albarr Khan's brave fighting, and saw his outstanding ability to command soldiers and horses in the fight, and couldn't help but have a deep desire in his heart to sympathize with each other, thinking how good it would be to catch this general.

The next day, Genghis Khan personally mounted his horse, commanded the soldiers and horses to attack the city, and ordered the generals of each battalion to seize the favorable terrain and snipe the soldiers and horses in the city out of the city. At this time, he realized that the cavalry of Khorezm was not weaker than the Mongol cavalry, so he did not let it out of the city, trapped it in the city, slowly eroded its will to fight, and then waited for an opportunity to annihilate it.

The siege of the city on this day was also fierce, although the general of Tahai Khan was not very determined, but under the persuasion of Albal Khan, Baal Lost Masi Khan, Sa'er Si Khan, Urakhei Khan, etc., each held a gate and was responsible for directing the defenders' counterattack.

Above and below the city, arrows and stones flew horizontally, bows and crossbows were fired in unison, people shouted horses, and cannons rumbled. The earthquake made the mountains and valleys echo, and the birds did not dare to stop flying within a hundred miles.

Genghis Khan personally commanded the siege battle, first with stone shooters, flamethrowers, rocket projectors, ballistas, etc. to carry out fierce attacks, but the city walls were strong, high and thick, and the defenders of the city resisted stubbornly, they used bows and arrows, rolling logs, and stones to counterattack, and repelled the Mongol attacks again and again.

While commanding the defenders of the city to counterattack, the Ximen guard Albal Khan led his troops out of the city, trying to kill the Mongol soldiers and horses attacking the city outside the city, and then rush through a bloody road. However, the Mongol soldiers and horses stubbornly sniped outside the city, rushing forward one after another, preferring to die in battle rather than take a step back.

Albal Khan's army shouted: "Rush out of the city and kill the Mongols!"

Again and again, they charged, inflicting heavy casualties on the Mongol army. Due to the tall size and stronger impact of the war horses of the Khorezm Kingdom, those Mongolian war horses with short bodies could not be stopped and had to retreat.

The battle on the third day had just begun, when a loud bang was heard from Simon, and a team of colorful behemoths rushed out. It turned out that the Khwarazmians drove twenty war elephants, each with colorful iron armor on their backs, and let them walk ahead of the cavalry, as the vanguard of the way, to charge the Mongol cavalry.

Behind each elephant there was a rope behind them, and they were whipped behind them with a whip to force them to run forward. So these mighty behemoths rushed forward with a roar. They scurried and jumped, their big thick and long noses, which were raised high and flung from side to side, and from which war elephants spewed out a large column of water, rushing forward like a waterfall.

Although the Mongol army was unstoppable, in the face of this team of war elephants, they wanted to resist at first, but in the blink of an eye, they were beaten by the elephant's trunk and violently charged, and immediately they could not support it, and the sound of hula la was ruptured and defeated.

So the war elephants rushed and rammed and trampled and trampled in front, and behind them was the cavalry of Albal Khan, who raised their swords and slashed left and right, killing the Mongol cavalry one after another, and the rest did not dare to fight, so they had to flee in the wilderness.

At this time, Genghis Khan, who was standing on the high post, saw clearly, seeing his soldiers and horses falling like a mountain, defeated so badly, and seeing the war elephant team so rampant, his heart was very anxious. Suddenly, he suddenly saw Yelu Ahai standing in front, and his eyes lit up, and he immediately ordered Yelu Ahai to quickly lead the artillery team to annihilate the war elephants.

Immediately after the order, he led his artillery team to meet the galloping war elephants, fired ballistas continuously, and used flamethrowers, rocket projectors, etc., to hit the heads and bodies of the war elephants continuously, and immediately several war elephants were killed, and some were burned by the fire, so they broke the ropes they were tied to, turned their heads and ran back, and rushed the cavalry of Albarr Khan to pieces, and they all dodged.

Chagatai's team was tasked with chasing down the cavalry of Al Bar Khan, and the army that was being chased by the elephants was commanded by Jochi, and at this time they also turned back and joined the torrent of annihilating the war elephants, shouting in unison and killing forward.

Later, the war elephants fled back to the city, and Albal Khan also returned to the city with his cavalry troops, and after the inventory, he found that six of the twenty war elephants were dead, nine were wounded, and only five were unharmed, but they were exhausted and frightened, and slept on the ground motionless, as if they were dead.

Albarr Khan was very angry, he thought that he would achieve a complete victory today, and used war elephants as a pioneer to break the Mongol soldiers and horses, and led his cavalry to chase after him, trying to defeat Genghis Khan's army in one fell swoop and relieve the siege of Samarkand. Unexpectedly, the weasel did not fight, but provoked a fishy body.

If it weren't for the fact that his war horse was running fast and was not captured alive by the Mongols, he would have been killed and trampled to death by the war elephants that had escaped. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and suddenly he got the news that some of the judges and imams in the city had surrendered out of the city, and he gritted his teeth with hatred.

It turned out that the soldiers and horses in the city were defeated and returned to the city, and some Islamic leaders and some elders wearing turbans, taking advantage of the opportunity of Al Bar Khan and other troops to return to the city, quietly went out of the city gate, and ran directly to the Mongolian camp, asking to meet Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan happily received them and opened a breakthrough in the siege from them.

So the leaders and elders of Islam entered the city smoothly from the northwest gate with Jochi's soldiers and horses, and occupied the gate. After the walls were torn down, Genghis Khan's army marched into the city of Samarkan, quickly eliminating the defenders and occupying the city. It took Genghis Khan only eight days to conquer the city, which Mohammad boasted of as impregnable.

I heard that the sect leader and the elders surrendered the city, and the Mongolian soldiers and horses had already entered the city, but the main general who defended the city, Tahai Khan, could not, so he had to bring more than 38,000 soldiers and horses into the castle with Albal Khan and others. Originally, the city of Samarkan consisted of three parts, but the three parts of the city were arranged from south to north, first the castle, then the inner city, and finally the outer city.

The castle was built entirely of stone and had strong walls, and Al Bar Khan placed his soldiers and horses in various key parts of the castle, and transported catapults and other defensive equipment into the castle to prepare for the battle against the Mongols. However, after Genghis Khan led his troops into the inner city, he was not busy attacking the castle, but only sent a group of soldiers and horses to surround it, adopting the strategy of encircling but not fighting, and focusing on the inner city.

The tall and strong walls were torn down, the deep and wide moats were filled in, and the Mongol brigades of soldiers and horses marched into the city, marching proudly through the streets of Samarkand, and freeing their horses into the grassy parks.

According to Genghis Khan's customary orders for the occupation of the city, the entire population of the city must be gathered and disposed of. In a short time, the male and female inhabitants of the city, in groups of 100 men, were watched by the Mongols, and they all rushed out of the city.

Only those Islamic chiefs and elders who went to meet Genghis Khan were granted refuge, but they were not exempted from leaving the city until a certain amount of fines were paid. More than 50,000 people received such preferential treatment at that time. Among the inhabitants, 30,000 technicians, craftsmen, blacksmiths, etc., were left behind and assigned to serve in the Mongolian legions, young men engaged in soil work, and some handsome young men went to the army to do miscellaneous work.

Then the herald conveyed Genghis Khan's order: "No one shall go out with his belongings, and those who hide shall be killed, and those who resist the order shall be put to death." ”

After that, the Mongol soldiers began to loot, and many soldiers and civilians hiding in cellars and caves came out to surrender, and those who did not surrender were immediately killed.